Practice management

The life insurance and disability income carrier places its technology bet with Boston-based company, Maxwell Health.

Working in benefits administration for the State of Tennessee, she oversaw the implementation of an interactive platform for employee benefits education and decision support.

With reporting requirements soaring, brokers are turning to their own regulatory division to help clients, says Richard Asensio, director of compliance at Burnham Benefits.

The Workplace Benefits Association is an organization of more than 6,000 corporate and individual members engaged in the marketing of benefits that involve the relationship between an employer and their employees, a business and their customers, and an organization and their members.

When it comes to plans meant to protect employees from unexpected out-of-pocket expenses, employers see the need. Employees are less enthusiastic.

New medical plans promote primary care and health counseling in an effort to lower employers costs.

Working in benefits administration for the State of Tennessee, Brandmeir oversaw the implementation of an interactive platform for employee benefits education and decision support.

As president of the not-for-profit, she directed the launch of a free website dedicated to healthcare cost transparency.

A wide breadth of product offerings and more attention to financial wellness are behind the steady increase in voluntary sales, according to LIMRA data.

With employers scrambling to do more with less, support technology is evolving to embrace more functions and brokers’ knowledge base needs to keep pace.